Author: Ben Fowlkes

Don’t Like MMA’s Double Standards? Then Do Something About It

Filed under: StrikeforceSarah Kaufman thinks she’s being treated differently than every other Strikeforce champion. She’s right.

She thinks there’s a double standard that’s keeping her pay low and her fights on the lesser-watched Challengers series e…

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Sarah Kaufman thinks she’s being treated differently than every other Strikeforce champion. She’s right.

She thinks there’s a double standard that’s keeping her pay low and her fights on the lesser-watched Challengers series events. She’s right.

She thinks – if I may paraphrase her position – that this is some unfair, possibly sexist crap. Again, she’s right.

And yet, I can’t help feeling like we already knew this. Just like I can’t help feeling that we’re all at least partially to blame for it.

Strikeforce: Challengers 9 — By the Odds

Filed under: StrikeforceThe midsummer MMA drought is drawing to a close not with one single deluge, but with a few tricking rain showers that will lead us into the August storm. Up this Friday night is the next presentation in the Strikeforce: Challeng…

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The midsummer MMA drought is drawing to a close not with one single deluge, but with a few tricking rain showers that will lead us into the August storm. Up this Friday night is the next presentation in the Strikeforce: Challengers series, this time from Everett, Wash., also known as the city that’s just close enough to Seattle to make you wonder why you didn’t just drive the extra half-hour on your road trip and stop there instead.

We already know that Strikeforce 135-pound women’s champ Sarah Kaufman is none too pleased about being relegated to the undercard of a Challengers event for her title defense against Roxanne Modafferi, but what else is there to see on this card, and who are these people, anyway? As a follow up, what kind of degenerate would you have to be to bet on this action?

The answer to at least one of those questions awaits you below.

Sarah Kaufman Talks ‘Cookies and Man Parts’

Filed under: StrikeforceJust a couple of days before her title defense on Friday night’s Strikeforce: Challengers event, unbeaten Strikeforce 135-pound champ Sarah Kaufman’s mind was on “cookies and man parts.”

Those seemed like the only two things, …

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Just a couple of days before her title defense on Friday night’s Strikeforce: Challengers event, unbeaten Strikeforce 135-pound champ Sarah Kaufman‘s mind was on “cookies and man parts.”

Those seemed like the only two things, Kaufman (11-0) wrote in a blog entry on PrettyToughFighter.com, that would get her off the Friday night Challengers shows and onto a main Strikeforce card.

“I am currently the Strikeforce Women’s Welterweight Champion…yet I fought for the title on a Challengers Card. Now, I am set to defend said title against Roxanne Modafferi in just a few days – again – on a Challengers Card,” Kaufman wrote.

The Truth About Losing

Brendan Schaub felt sure that people were staring at him. No matter where he went, whether he was among a crowd of strangers or trusted friends, he could feel their eyes on him.

“I felt like I’d walk into the mall or a room somewhere, even the trainin…

Brendan Schaub felt sure that people were staring at him. No matter where he went, whether he was among a crowd of strangers or trusted friends, he could feel their eyes on him.

“I felt like I’d walk into the mall or a room somewhere, even the training room, and people would be like, there’s the guy who got knocked out,” Schaub said. “I just felt so embarrassed.”

That embarrassment stemmed from his first, and so far only defeat – a knockout loss to Roy Nelson at the “Ultimate Fighter” 10 finale last December. Afterwards, when he went back home, Schaub spent the next two weeks convinced that there wasn’t a soul in the world who hadn’t seen him get floored on live TV.

Chad Griggs: Lashley Is Strikeforce’s Golden Child, But Very Beatable

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Chad Griggs doesn’t need anyone to spell it out for him. He knows what’s going through the minds of both MMA fans and Strikeforce officials. He knows why he was offered the fight with Bobby Lashley at the August 21 Strikeforc…

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Chad Griggs doesn’t need anyone to spell it out for him. He knows what’s going through the minds of both MMA fans and Strikeforce officials. He knows why he was offered the fight with Bobby Lashley at the August 21 Strikeforce event in Houston.

“Everybody’s counting on me losing,” Griggs (8-1) told MMA Fighting. “That’s great. I’m the underdog. They’ve blown Bobby Lashley up into this huge, unbeatable superstar. He’s very big, very strong, he’s going to be explosive. But I think he’s been blown up into a little more than he is just yet.”

Frank Mir: Soon to Be the Distinguished Gentleman From Las Vegas?

Filed under: UFCIt’s been a few months since the last time we heard Frank Mir talking about a career in politics, but judging by a story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday, his enthusiasm for the idea hasn’t waned since then.

Mir, who describe…

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It’s been a few months since the last time we heard Frank Mir talking about a career in politics, but judging by a story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Tuesday, his enthusiasm for the idea hasn’t waned since then.

Mir, who described his political bent as “extremely liberal” when he mentioned a potential run for office to MMA Fighting’s Mike Chiappetta back in March, said he’s still considering a career in politics once his fighting days are over, if only because he wants to get off the sidelines and into the game.

“Politics affects everybody’s daily life,” Mir said. “I never want to be one of those guys that bellyaches in a bar about the president or Congress and at the end of the day you never vote or talk about what’s going on or do anything as far as having any kind of influence.”